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The sculptures of New Zealand artist Ben Young – hand-cut glass and jagged concrete marine-scapes precision-cut like the facets of gemstones, revealing their topographies.

Also, weeny little human figures dwarfed by the majesty of the oceans.

That’s you and all your mates, that is.

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Like Greg Klassen’s excellent river and lake furniture, the Abyss table by Duffy London also evokes marine topography, in this case, an unspecified section of am unspecified ocean in layered wood and perspex.

The images above are only digital representations of the as yet unmade tables.

The effect is lovely. The production run is limited to 25. The abyss into which your wallet will plummet, judicious buyer, is €5,800 deep.

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Furniture maker Greg Klassen takes wood from dead trees or discarded edge pieces from construction sites, aligns the jagged edges and joins them with hand-cut pieces of glass to create the impression of miniature river and lake topographies.

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